Illustrated by Beth Krommes
This is one of my favorite books that I have read over the last three weeks. It is a nature poetry book. Although I am not a huge poetry fan, I really enjoyed the poems between these covers. Part of what made me appreciate them so much was the terrific explanation on the pages follow each set of poems describing in detail the natural situations that the poems refer to. The illustrations played a big role in my enjoyment of the book. They are what looks to be some sort of ink resist style. The black ink details are wonderful and really make the colors pop.
I thought that this book would be great to show students how they can take observations that they have made of happenings in the natural world and turn them into poetry. I can envision showing students this book, having them write down some observations of nature. Converting those observations to poetry. Then, to top it off, doing an art project using a similar style. The book was a great inspiration to my text set.
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